Bart De Smet is a Principal Software Development Engineer working on large scale stream processing systems in the Applications and Services Division at Microsoft Corporation, a course and book author. In his current role at Microsoft, he’s overseeing the architecture, design, and implementation of event processing systems that run at massive scale in data centers, as well as on cloud-connected devices. One of the publicly visible technologies powered by this infrastructure is Cortana.
Prior to joining the Applications and Services Division, Bart was involved with the design and implementation of Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) and on an extended “LINQ to Anything” mission back in the SQL organization.
His main interests include programming languages, runtimes, functional programming, and all sorts of theoretical foundations. Before joining the company, Bart was a C# MVP for four years, while completing his Master of Civil Engineering and Computer Science studies at Ghent University, Belgium. Bart is also the author of the C# 5.0 Unleashed book (and its predecessor) by SAMS, and an author of online courses at Pluralsight for topics such as C# language internals.

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Talk:
Reactive Programming at Cloud-Scale and Beyond

A wide variety of data is increasingly obtained in a push-based manner. Think of sensors in health tracking devices, home automation and IoT, but also changes to the world’s information such as flight information, breaking news, etc. To make sense of this wide range of signals, the world needs rich querying capabilities for event streams.

In this talk, we’ll discuss how the reactive programming paradigm fits these requirements and can be applied from small devices all the way to cloud-scale infrastructures.